Oh, yeah. I'm here, and I have nothing but wonderful things to say about the program! It DOES work! It worked when nothing, and I mean NOTHING, else did, when my metabolism was totally screwed up from eating too little and exercising too much.
I'd lost 99 pounds on WW, then I hit a plateau that lasted almost two years. TWO YEARS! That's just a number to all of you, I know, but that was two years of my life. Two frustrating, hanging-on-by-a-toenail, almost-ready-to-give up two years. My resolve, at that time, was shaky at best. I could easily have slid back into my old habits. But this program saved me from that and taught me how to eat for the rest of my life. I honestly didn't know how, before. I've always either been on an all-out binge or a starvation diet. Nothing in between. I didn't know how to eat sensibly. When I started gaining weight on WW, I was at a loss about what to do. I didn't want to backslide but couldn't see starving myself only to GAIN weight! That's when I found out about physiquetransformation.com on this website (thanks, again, Fitness Goddess).
This is the third time I've lost over 100 pounds. It's an understatement to call me a yo-yo dieter. And I've never exercised in my life! I hated it. I hated to sweat. I didn't even like walking. But like I said, I finally got up the oomph to lose that weight one more time. Exercised until I'd worked my way up from riding my bike six blocks to the store to exercising with Cathe and keeping up! And then . . . stuck! Nothing would budge that weight--and I still had 70 pounds to lose. I actually gained 4 pounds eating 1100 calories a day, riding my bike 1-3 hours a day, and lifting weights (with Cathe) 3-4 days a week.
The best part about the PT program is Conditioning, in my opinion. Yes, it's frustrating to wait 4-8 weeks to get started, but it's so necessary. It gets your metabolism in high gear, ready to burn those calories by eating lots of "clean" calories. I didn't even know that was possible! I didn't know you could FIX your metabolism! I didn't know you could make it burn hotter. But I actually lost 7 pounds in the first few weeks of the program. By the end of conditioning, I was eating 2,840 clean calories a day and losing weight steadily at 2 pounds a week. (On WW, I was lucky to lose 1/2 pound a week.)
It's a great program. Do yourself a favor and check into it. It's not easy. I won't say it is. And at first, it's time-consuming. I spent an hour or so a day, at first. (But I also spent two hours a day less doing pointless exercise that wasn't working anyway, so I actually saved time when I learned to exercise more sensibly, too.) It takes a while to unlearn the habits of a lifetime, and that's what the first weeks on the program will do for you. Once you catch on, it gets easier and easier. Now, I probably spend ten minutes a day planning what I'll eat each day. I exercise six days a week, no more than an hour a day.
PT and Cathe gave me my life back. I was nearly 300 pounds. I could barely walk. I took something like 12 pills a day for hypothyroidism, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. I take 3, now, and at lower doses than ever before. And the best part is, I take no medicine whatsoever for my type-II diabetes! None! Even with all the carbs you eat with this program, my sugar is completely controlled with only diet and exercise. Seriously, check it out.
Shari
